Di quale esperienza l'idea di comunismo è il nome?

The term communism appeared to be discredited. However, for more than a decade now,
it has surprisingly come back. This is detectable, in the academic field, through a series of
conferences that has taken place in recent years. The present article examines some of the
contributions from the first of these conferences (which took place in London on 2009): those
of Badiou, Rancière, Negri, and Žižek. Each section analyses the way in which the author,
in his own way, proposes an answer to the question of the relationship between the idea of
communism and its concrete or historical experience. The article will conclude that this is the
true legacy of this debate. It is a theoretical knot that lies at the very heart of the traditional
methodology of critical thinking: the relationship between theory and praxis. In light of this
knot, we will remark the antinomies of this debate, but also the broader perspective opened
by it, regarding, more than the term communism in itself, the subjective experience that can
be named communist.